The Free Lawyer

One of the biggest challenges in creating personal fulfillment is making it a habit to live in the present, and to avoid being stuck in the past or in the future. Both of those create obstacles to our attaining personal freedom. In this Episode of the Free Lawyer Podcast, I describe the problems and negative emotions we feel when we drift off the past or the future. I explain 10 real gifts of bein...

Have you ever felt overwhelmed at work? That you simply cannot handle any more? That although you had loved your profession, now you are feeling tired of it and are getting frustrated? Have your felt burned out? This is unfortunately not at all unusual. The problem often is that we have not set appropriate boundaries between our professional life and our personal life, and we are beginning to suff...

So many of us feel trapped by having too much work to do, not enough time to do it, and an inability to separate work from family and other personal activities.   How can we free ourselves from the time trap? How can we take ownership of our time and not feel so much a victim to the paucity of time to do the work we feel we need to do? In this episode of The Free Lawyer,  I will exp...

Do you ever feel overwhelmed and don't know how to achieve a sense of peace among the chaos?? Often we feel incredibly stressed in our profession. It can all be so much. So much beyond our control. It seems that we are powerless and so little we can do about it. And that only increases our stress. How do we find serenity in the midst of all of this anxiety and pressure? One very helpful solut...

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by stress? Do you have days you feel that simply nothing goes right? Do you see other people who appear so happy and wish you felt like that? I know I have. One critical tool in overcoming those feelings is having a practice of gratitude. In this episode of the Free Lawyer,  I explain nine different gifts of living a grateful life, and four easy steps to achievi...

We all want to be happy, content, fulfilled. But yet, sometimes that peace appears very difficult to achieve. We place ourselves in a negative mindset. We worry too much. Think too much. Resent or blame others. We let ourselves get distracted and stressed. How can we change that? Here are ten tips, plus a bonus, for daily action. If you apply these every day, you will naturally be more serene...

In my four decades as a litigator and family law attorney, I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly. We all benefit when we raise the standards for professionalism. Our clients get their problems solved faster. We experience more satisfaction and fulfillment.  In this podcast, I share two war stories, one the right way to practice law and the other the wrong way. I also provide seven concre...

All too often we are under incredible pressure and stress in our professional lives. We work very hard, often long hours. We eat whatever is handy, quick, and convenient. Often, those are the least healthy option. We can develop less than ideal eating patterns, that limit our performance and put us in our own nutritional prison.  This is one area of our life we have some power over. There are...

Have you ever felt that you were not as good as other people think you are? Do you ever doubt your ability to succeed despite a track record of accomplishment? If so you are not the only one. Many successful professionals struggle with these feelings. In this podcast, I will discuss the reality of these feelings of self-doubt; explain how they affect us; and give you six tangible tips to overcome...

Do you ever have negative reactions to something in your life and not really understand where that came from? Would you like to be free of those feelings? One of the most powerful facets of our personality is impact from the lessons we have learned and the feelings we’ve developed from our past experiences. Some of these are helpful, many are not. Often we are blind to them. Our past affects us in...

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Free Lawyer Podcast! In this episode, we will discuss exactly who benefits from the insights in this podcast; some of the very important topics to be discussed; and the background that I bring that allows me to help you in identifying the blocks that hold you back from achieving true personal freedom. Interested in learning more? Please visit www.garymiles.n...